AUCHINLECK TALBOT have been confirmed as 2019-20 winners of the McBookie.Com West Region Premiership in Scottish junior football – despite sitting third in the table when coronavirus stopped the season in its tracks.
The news has been confirmed by the Scottish Junior FA this evening – based on the advantage Talbot had in average points tally over leaders Kilwinning Rangers, who are sitting no fewer than 12 points clear in the table.
As outlandish as the table looks, the mathematics in Talbot's favour is fairly straightforward.
Tommy Sloan's side have cut great swathes through the junior ranks in recent years and the fact they still had nine games in hand on Kilwinning gives them the title on the account of their average points per game ratio of 2.56, which comfortably outstrips Kilwinning's 2.12.
In the last season before a major re-organisation of the Scottish game is set to place with the formation of the West of Scotland league within the Scottish senior football pyramid, Blantyre Vics and Darvel shared the Championship title.
Vics actually had a marginally superior points per game advantage from their matches to date (2.55) to Darvel (2.523), but the league decided that a joint award was the only fair way to decide.
Elsewhere, Shettleston Juniors are the champions of West Region League 1.
Johnstone Burgh get the honours in League 2.
No fewer than 67 clubs from the junior ranks have an expressed an interest to play in the West of Scotland leagues from season 2020-21 onwards.
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